Taylor platform
| Taylor platform | ||
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| location | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Prince Charles Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 71 ° 1 ′ S , 67 ° 9 ′ E | |
The Taylor platform is a low and more or less flattened rock massif in the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is one mile north of the Brocklehurst Ridge in the Prince Charles Mountains .
The massif was mapped using aerial photographs taken between 1956 and 1960 during the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions . The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named it after the ionospheric researcher F. J. Taylor, who worked at Mawson Station in 1964 .
Web links
- Taylor Platform in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Taylor Platform on geographic.org (English)